Quantum-Refined Latent Diffusion: A Hybrid Generative Framework for Imbalanced ECG Classification
Kritopoulos, G.; Neofotistos, G.; Barmparis, G. D.; Tsironis, G. P.
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Class imbalance in clinical electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets limits the diagnostic sensitivity of automated arrhythmia classifiers, particularly for rare but clinically significant beat types. We propose a three-stage hybrid generative pipeline that combines a spectral-guided conditional Variational Autoencoder (cVAE), a class-conditional latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), and a Quantum Latent Refinement (QLR) module built on parameterized quantum circuits to augment minority arrhythmia classes in the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. The QLR module applies a bounded residual correction guided by Maximum Mean Discrepancy minimization to align synthetic latent distributions with real class-specific latent banks. A lightweight 1D MobileNetV2 classifier evaluated over five independent random seeds and four augmentation ratios serves as the downstream benchmark. Our findings establish latent diffusion augmentation as an effective strategy for imbalanced ECG classification and motivate further investigation of quantum-classical hybrid methods in cardiac diagnostics.
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